Maybe It's Her, Maybe It's Veela

by H.P.Scarlett

When Hermione returns for her eighth and final year Hogwarts something is different and more than a few people are noticing, especially Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy. With emotions and hormones running high how will Hermione adjust to finally finding out who she really is. Warming this contains lemons! Dramoine and Harmony pairings included

1. Chapter 1

Maybe It's her, Maybe It's Veela

Disclaimer: The Harry Potter universe and all of its diverse and wonderful characters belong to JK Rowling. Only the plot of this story is mine.

Author notes: This is canon divergent. For the purposes of this story the Epilogue to the Deathly Hollows did not occur. This story begins shortly before Hermione returns to Hogwarts to complete her NEWTS. Harry and Ron will also be returning Hogwarts to attempt to get the minimum of five E's on their NEWTS they to qualify for Auror training. Additional characters may return to Hogwarts regardless of canon. Both Harry and Ginny's, and Hermione and Ron's relationships ended shortly after the battle of Hogwarts. Both relationships ended amicably I will probably talk about this more in the story but I want the readers to know where the story stands.

Hermione has restored her parents memories but they elected to stay in Australia so she is living there with them this summer before she returns to finish her education at Hogwarts.

Additionally I know Hermione's birthday is September 19th right after Hogwarts begins the fall term however for plot purposes I am making it August 19th, so it occurs before she returns to Hogwarts.

Chapter 1: Night Changes

It was hot and muggy in Australia in the middle of August even after the sunset. The night before Hermione's 18th birthday, or more accurately the morning of, Hermione thrashed in her covers, tossing and turning haunted by dreams she couldn't understand. It was not a nightmare of war but something else some vague almost instinctual terror seized her. Unbeknownst to her she whimpered in sleep the sounds loud enough to wake her mother Emma Granger sleeping with her father in the next room. Suddenly Hermione awoke screaming in pain, it she rolled onto her stomach her back feeling as if flames were scorching her beneath her skin. Suddenly the pain lessened, and Hermione stopped screaming though silent tears of pain still ran down her cheeks. She heard rapid footsteps as Emma Granger burst into her daughter's room followed closely by her husband John Granger.

Emma took one look at her daughter and said to her husband, "John go get the letters." Mr. Granger returned a few moments later with two yellowed envelopes. "Hermione darling," Emma said her most soothing voice, "before your father and I explain I really think it would be best if get up and look at yourself in the mirror." Hermione in still too much shock from the pain to question her mother as she would normally have done got out of bed and walked to the mirror which hung on her bathroom door. Hermione glanced at her reflection, and then stared. The most glaringly obviously change in her appearance was the wings, large white feathered appendages which shown even in the minimal light present in Hermione's room. Hermione couldn't help thinking they looked like angle wings. She reached back in disbelief expecting them to be an illusion but the soft feathers that her fingers touched ended that train of thought. Hermione realized as she touched them that she could feel her wings. She flexed them experimentally and for just and instant her feet left the floor as her wings flapped a single time. Hermione looked back to the mirror beginning to notice other changes in her appearance more subtle in comparison to the wings. Her entire person seemed to glow from with in her skin, her, eyes, her hair. Her formerly frizzy and unruly mass of curls hung in perfect gleaming ringlets. Her figure, which had been womanly enough before this sudden transformation, now boasted lush curves. Hermione's brain had been frantically working at figuring out what had happened to her recognized her glow as something familiar. Her eyes went wide with sudden understanding, "Am I part Veela?"

"Yes," her father replied. "Sadly darling I am not your biological mother, though you have always been and will always be my daughter," Emma Granger added softly. Her father handed her the two letters. "These are from your mother and a friend of hers. Adeline was your mother and she was beautiful from the inside out dear," John Granger explained.

Hermione open the envelope, which read From your loving mother Adeline to my baby girl and was addressed to her father.

Mon petit, I want you to know I love you with all of my heart but a life with me as a single Veela is not suitable for a baby especially since I know you are a witch. I told your father that he would know when the right time to give this to you was and I trust he did. I will first tell you how we met and how I came to give you to your father and his mate.

I was in London bundled in a coat to protect from the summer rain, and rushing somewhere I can't remember where I didn't make it there. I bumped into your father who was on the way to the cinema to she a movie. He helped me up and he was so kind even before he saw my face. You'll grow to understand that your beauty will affect the way some people treat, and it is not always a positive as you might assume. But he was so kind and he asked if I'd like to go to the cinema with him and I was so fascinated by this muggle that I agreed. I don't know what the movie was I spent the whole time watching him. He showed such genuine compassion for even the fictional characters in the film that I found myself transfixed and I decided that I would have him after the movie. You might be shocked I know humans often have a code of morality which states that sex outside of marriage is wrong, but Veela in the wilds do not have such compunction we sexual beings we need physical affection, it is part of what we are. Well after the movie I went back with your father to his flat and we spent a beautiful night together and then the next day I returned to my home in the French Alps. About a month later I realized I was pregnant. I sent my best friend Apolline, who like you is half Veela, to find John but he had already met your mother and she could see they were in love. I knew I could use my Veela nature to charm your father away from your mother if I chose but I did not want manufactured love so I let him go, though I kept a watch on him through a spell Apolline had set up for me. I saw him marry your mother, and watched him find out she was pregnant. I felt their pangs of loss when she went into labor six weeks early only to discover her tiny little girl was stillborn. I saw the doctors tell her because of the complications she had during her pregnancy she would never be able to have children. I watched that loving woman weep each night after your father fell asleep so her tears wouldn't cause him a additional pain. A Veela pregnancy lasts a full year, yours my daughter though luckily for you as a half Veela will last the normal human term of forty weeks, so when she miscarried I was very close to term. Once I had watched her for several days and heard the doctor's pronouncement and I resolved to give you to them to love and raise as their own. I knew they could give you a better life than I could. So I went to John and Emma and explained part of what I was. I delivered in their living room, and I watched as you accepted milk from Emma's breast. My heart broke a little mon petit. I told John I would send a letter for him to give to you when the time was right. I left before they named you since it already hurt too much to leave you even though I know it was the best thing I could do for you.

I will now tell you what to expect in terms of your change. Your wings will recede back into your skin and only present at time of great emotional turmoil or through the will and control you will learn over your new shape. That is the only drastic physical change you will under go as a half Veela mon petit. (Hermione snorted as she read this, she thought her other physical changes were quite drastic enough thank you very much) You will be able to throw fire balls like full Veela this too is linked to your emotions specifically anger until you learn more control. You will also have the Veela ability to entrance men, though you can dampen or increase it effect through learned control. You are in a fairly transient period right now mon petit think of it like a second puberty your hormone both human and Veela are heightened levels which will effect your emotional state. Your emotions will seem more intense particular anger, arousal, and jealousy. I wish you luck mon petit, hopefully I will be able to come to you before your time of change.

Love,

Adeline

Hermione turned to the second letter, which had again been addressed to her father and read From Apolline to Adeline's daughter and was dated about a year and a half after the first.

I am sorry to inform you that you mother is no longer with us. A hunter accidently shot her as she flew over her home forest thinking her a bird. No one found her until it was too late to save her and she had passed from this life. I want you to know you can contact me if you need anything. Adeline was my best friend and any daughter of hers is like a second daughter of my own.

Sincerely,

Apolline Delacour

Hermione starred at the letter. Her mother's Apolline was Fluer's mother! "Mum, dad I love you both and I will be back as soon as I can I am going to France. Hermione grabbed her wand and apparated to the Delacour estate in France.